LMU Professor Katerina Zacharia, whose work focuses on classical antiquity in visual and performance culture, argues that the online storm over the film’s “inaccuracies” — the armor, the ship, the casting — misses what the Homeric tradition actually is: “Homer fused dimly remembered Bronze Age objects with the Iron Age world of his own audience, and every era since — the Attic vase painters, Renaissance tapestry weavers, Hollywood — has armed these heroes in its own imagination. When Nolan dresses Odysseus in the armor of the vase painters’ era rather than his own, he is doing precisely what the vase painters did.” The film, she argued, isn’t failing a test the tradition ever passed; it’s joining the tradition.
Source: ARTnews